I saw Dr Bridwell Monday and he did recommend surgery. He compared my standing A/P xray to an A/P xray lying on my back with someone holding my head steady and someone else pulling my feet. This was said to be done to estimated the correction. The numbers went from 60* to 47* thoracic and from 52* to 36* lumbar. That doesn't sem like much of a correction to me.
Has anyone heard of this method of estimating correction?? I have mostly heard of the "bending" xray, not the "stretching" xray.
Also, his nurse mentioned they would use "halo" traction at head and traction in legs to mimic that stretch during surgery. Has anyone else out there had this done??? How are the scars where the traction is placed???
Do you usually get more correction because of the derotation? His nurse told me they could not estimate the amount of rotation very well by xray. Is this why many get a better correction than first estimated???
Also, thought you may want to know that Dr Bridwell says with the advanced techniques in the last 5 yrs, the risk of non fusion is 5-8 %, a big improvement in his prior study showing 17%.
Has anyone heard of this method of estimating correction?? I have mostly heard of the "bending" xray, not the "stretching" xray.
Also, his nurse mentioned they would use "halo" traction at head and traction in legs to mimic that stretch during surgery. Has anyone else out there had this done??? How are the scars where the traction is placed???
Do you usually get more correction because of the derotation? His nurse told me they could not estimate the amount of rotation very well by xray. Is this why many get a better correction than first estimated???
Also, thought you may want to know that Dr Bridwell says with the advanced techniques in the last 5 yrs, the risk of non fusion is 5-8 %, a big improvement in his prior study showing 17%.
Comment